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BitlBee is an IRC instant messaging gateway licensed under the terms of theGPL. It communicates with the end user via the IRC protocol whilst interactingwith popular chat networks such as AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, and Jabber. The user'sbuddies appear as normal IRC users in a channel, and conversations use theprivate message facility of IRC.

After the installation, you need to modify your /etc/inetd.conf so bitlbee willbe started when /etc/rc.d/rc.inetd is called on bootup. Add the line below toyour /etc/inetd.conf file: 6667 stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/bitlbee

Restart inetd (/etc/rc.d/rc.inetd restart). All that is left to do now isconnect your irc client to the localhost.

NOTE: The default "bot"/bitlbee daemon is called 'root'. This is not the rootuser on your system. You can easily change it. Register and identify yourselffirst, and then: rename root BitlBot (or whatever you want)